Saturday, May 20, 2017

Greetings from Rose Hill Motel in Mena, Arkansas


Where John and Josephine Harbaugh spent a night in late November 1951 on their honeymoon.  
(You can read about it here -- on page IV-20 of John's "Memoirs".)

Postcard from Retiring Guy's collection

Note the motto.

Source:  Wikipedia

Mena (population about 4,445 in 1951; an estimated 5,653 in 2015) is located in Polk County (est. 2015 population of 20,216), where Donald Trump received 80.4% of the vote in last year's presidential election.  It's a very red place; McCain took 71% of the vote in '08.

Other greetings:
Will Rogers Ranch.  (5/20/2017)
Grauman's Chinese Theater.  (5/18/2017)
Hollywood Boulevard.  (5/18/2017)
Barstow, California.  (5/17/2017)
California.  (5/14/2017)
Parklabrea Towers, L.A.  (5/14/2017)
La Jolla Children's Pool.  (5/13/2017)
Los Angeles.  (5/11/2017)
Laguna Beach, California.  (5/10/2017)
California.  (5/9/2017)
Los Angeles.  (5/9/2017)
California.  (5/8/2017)
Pomona College, Claremont, California.  (5/7/2017)
La Jolla, California.  (5/6/2017)
Hope, Arkansas.  (5/4/2017)
Bakersfield, California.  (5/3/2017)
Little Rock, Arkansas.  (5/1/2017)
California.  (4/28/2017)
Little Rock, Arkansas.  (4/19/2017)
Superstition Mountain, Arizona.  (4/15/2017)
Tucson, Arizona.  (4/12/2017)
Phoenix, Arizona.  (4/8/2017)
Monument Valley, Arizona/Utah.  (4/8/2017)
Dothan, Alabama.  (4/5/2017)
Mobile, Alabama.  (4/5/2017)
Anniston, Alabama.  (3/29/2017)

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